Dr. David Volk
Associate Professor of Music, Department of Music Chair, Music Theory and Composition
Bio
David Volk joined Colorado State University-Pueblo in August 2013 as Associate Professor of Music and Department Chair having previously taught at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise and Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia. At The University of Virginia's College at Wise, David was the 2010 recipient of the college’s Outstanding Teacher award and a 2010 nominee for the Commonwealth of Virginia's Outstanding Faculty Award.
Other Activities
An active composer, David has written works for solo voice and choral ensembles as well as solo and ensemble instrumental works. His doctoral dissertat ion, a one-act chamber opera based on Flannery O’Connor’s short story A Good Man is Hard to Find, premiered in Athens, GA, in 2003 with a grant from the University of Georgia’s Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE). The opera has also been performed in Demorest, Georgia, and Wise, Virginia, and was a featured presentation of the Flannery O’Connor Library at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville in 2003.